Brooks Benson, Keenan Eaton and Brent Wallace each had two runs batted in on Friday as Chaparral used a four-run sixth inning to put away Douglas County 7-1 and remain in a tie for the Class 5A Continental League.

Wallace added a home run as the Wolverines pounded out 11 hits to keep pace with Regis Jesuit, the defending 5A state champion.

Once again, we’ve teamed up with chsaa.tv. This time, it means we will have every single state tournament basketball game from here on out available to watch live on our site, as well as a replay after each game is over.

It concludes with Saturday’s action, which includes the 4A and 5A boys basketball championships.

Denver East could wind up as one of the two Class 5A holders from the Denver Prep League.

There’s a sweeping change to the latest draft of the proposed football classification and league alignment — and it has nothing to do with all the commotion surrounding Valor Christian.

According to a copy of the draft obtained by The Denver Post, the Denver Prep League will cease to exist in football for the 2012-14 cycle. Instead of the proposed seven-team league — which had Kennedy leaping from 3A to 5A — only Lincoln and Denver East will remain in 5A, and those two schools won’t even be in the same conference.

Lincoln will become the sixth team in the East Metro league, joining Brighton, Northglenn, Prairie View, Thornton and Westminster. Denver East will join the Aurora league with Adams City, Aurora Central, Gateway and Hinkley and Rangeview.

George Washington, Montbello, Denver South and Kennedy will each move to 4A, while Thomas Jefferson will drop down to 3A.

Let the state championship chase begin. Boys golfers — arguably the deepest field in the state — get the fall festivities underway on Monday and Tuesday.

Class 5A:

At Grand Junction’s Bookcliff G.C., a lovely municipal track, that’s biggest test will be on the greens. If the course plays anything like it did when is hosted in 2003 — a championship won by ThunderRidge’s Ryan Husted — the scores will be fairly close to par.

It should be a dandy of team race between Regis Jesuit, Highlands Ranch and Cherry Creek. The defending champion Raiders flexed their muscles in the regional tournament, going 68-68-68-71 (if you are doing the math, that’s 13-under par).

Neil Devlin, originally from the Philadelphia area, has covered high school sports in Colorado for more than 30 years, writing about the people, athletes and events that encompass the Rocky Mountain prep sports world.